Toolholders & Workholding

ZOLLER Inc. President Alexander Zoller highlights new tool heat shrink technology and more while Matt Brothers, Industry 4.0 Tech Center manager, describes a new measuring program for presetting skiving cutters.

John Roskos, GF Machining Solution's regional sales manager for System 3R, shows off the System 3R WorkPartner 1+ automation cell during IMTS 2022.

Preben Hansen, president of Platinum Tooling Technologies Inc., features a variety of products from Heimatec, Tecnicrafts, Quick, Henninger and Rineck.

Selecting the right toolholder for an application requires understanding some of the available options to enhance accuracy.

Tony Wittynghan, sales manager for Huron Machine Products, demonstrates Huron's Quick-Change Jaw System, which allows you to convert your standard three-jaw power chuck into a quick-change chuck.

The multifunctional turning-boring-milling center is designed for complete machining of complex chuck and shaft parts up to 670 mm swing over bed. Turning, milling, drilling, hobbing, shaping, gun drilling as well as ID machining can be performed under any angle of the tool. The interpolation of up to 5 axes makes machining of any geometrical profile possible. Large safety windows provide the best possible overview of the working area.

Users can machine this collet attachment to adapt it to match the internal contour of the workpiece they are clamping. However, what makes this new exhibit from AMF so special is that no through holes are needed in the workpiece to achieve safe internal clamping. With mechanical lateral actuation, workpieces with a blind hole can also be clamped securely and without distortion.

An advanced touchscreen HMI enables automatic, partial changeovers in 15 seconds or less, and one minute or less for complete changeovers. Additionally, the user-friendly HMI uses QR codes for easy servicing, forecasting tools and a 500-part setup library. The bar feeder's newly designed main cover lifts upward for easier access.

The LC xx6 series offers the same mounting profile as its LC 1x5 / LC 4x5 encoders, though the newest LC 116 and LC 416 offer a different internal optimized scanning system which makes them easier to deploy. This scanning design utilizes true optimized optics, which ensures clear imaging even with contamination and condensation.

The design makes them the ideal solution for machining simple to complicated jobs. In addition, their unique round design allows for five-sided access to workpieces. The vises occupy less space and reduce the amount of vise interference.

The online store is divided into three categories, helping quickly guide visitors to their area of interest. The store features Tooling Tech's full catalog of Segen quick-change cylinder locks, knobs and fasteners suited for clamping and work holding in a variety of industries and applications as well as the full thermoforming and blow molding catalogs.

An excellent way to improve stability and accuracy in rotating tools applications when applied to Swiss-type and multitasking machines is to improve clamping stability by use of integral collets. What is an integral collet? An integral collet is a tool with a tapered shank for direct mounting on ER collet chucks.